Newsgroups: comp.archives Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!msen.com!emv From: andreess@mrlaxe.mrl.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) Subject: [aix...] Re: Has anyone ported GNU-make to IBM RS-6000/AIX? Message-ID: <1991Apr25.031857.12153@ox.com> Followup-To: comp.unix.aix,gnu.misc.discuss Sender: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) Reply-To: andreess@mrlaxe.mrl.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana References: <1991Apr22.202418.2154@cs.columbia.edu> <1991Apr24.200143.26406@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1991 03:18:57 GMT Approved: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) X-Original-Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,gnu.misc.discuss Archive-name: gnu/utils/rs6000-gnu-make/1991-04-24 Archive: export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/gmake-6000.tar.Z [18.30.0.238] Original-posting-by: andreess@mrlaxe.mrl.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) Original-subject: Re: Has anyone ported GNU-make to IBM RS-6000/AIX? Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) In article jae@iastate.edu (Edwards John Andrew) writes: > The title says it all: Has anyone ported GNU-make to the IBM RS-6000 > running AIX? I ran into troubles with arscan.c (the format of AIX's .a > files appears to be somewhat alternative), but before I dig into it, I > figured I'd try the net to see if someone's already solved this. > >I have been wondering the same thing. Apparently, it is due to >be released with gcc-2.00, whenever that appears. I would like >very much to have it available because I also want G++ on this >box. Look on export.lcs.mit.edu, in contrib/gmake-6000.tar.Z. I ported it myself before seeing this; it really isn't that difficult to do yourself if you're willing to weed out the differences between what the distribution expects and what AIX provides. >Alas, there also may be a political problem arising with IBM and >lawsuits, so the AIX/RS6000 port may *never* be available from >FSF. Huh? This is new... the only problem I ever heard about was actually shipping Emacs with the system. Is there something else? (According to the FSF, GCC/G++ will support the RS/6000; also, Emacs 18.57 does right now...) Marc -- Marc Andreessen___________University of Illinois Materials Research Laboratory Internet: andreessen@uimrl7.mrl.uiuc.edu____________Bitnet: andreessen@uiucmrl -- comp.archives file verification export.lcs.mit.edu -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp 30 348218 Nov 16 19:24 /contrib/gmake-6000.tar.Z found rs6000-gnu-make ok export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/gmake-6000.tar.Z